Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was an American poet and Feminist advocate who lived most of her life in quiet isolation in Amherst, Massachusetts. As she grew older, she rarely left her family’s home due to her father’s orders, communicating mostly through notes and letters. Despite this reclusive life, her brain was constantly active with thoughts flooding her mind so much to the point where it became overwhelming. She composed nearly 1,800 poems, though fewer than a dozen were published while she was alive. Her work consists of short lines, dashes, and unconventional capitalization. Dickinson explored deep themes such as death, immortality, nature, grief, love and the power of the human imagination. Friends and family knew her as a brilliant, witty, and very private person. In her private life she shared a deep emotional bond with her dear friend and sister-in-law Susan (Sue) Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, who had served as a muse and trusted reader for many of her poems. Allegedly, there was a love affair going on between the two. After her death, her sister discovered her poems hidden in a wooden box. Thanks to later editors, Dickinson is now considered one of the most famous and important poets in American history—a woman who had turned a life of outward simplicity into an inner world of depth.